AWS HPC Blog
Author: Dr. Fabio Baruffa
Dr. Fabio Baruffa is a senior specialist solutions architect at AWS. He designs large-scale customer solutions in the high-performance computing area and helps to accelerate quantum computing adoption using the cloud infrastructure. He has more than 10 years of experience in the HPC industry and academia, working as application engineer at Intel and HPC specialist in the largest supercomputing centers in Europe, mainly the Leibniz Supercomputing Center and the Max-Plank Computing and Data Facility in Germany, as well as Cineca in Italy. He holds a PhD in Physics from University of Regensburg for his research in spintronics devices and quantum computing.
Simulating 44-Qubit quantum circuits using AWS ParallelCluster
A key part of the development of quantum hardware and quantum algorithms is simulation using existing classical architectures and HPC techniques. In this blog post, we describe how to perform large-scale quantum circuits simulations using AWS ParallelCluster with QuEST, the Quantum Exact Simulation Toolkit. We demonstrate a simple and rapid deployment of computational resources up to 4,096 compute instances to simulate random quantum circuits with up to 44 qubits. We were able to allocate as many as 4096 EC2 instances of c5.18xlarge to simulate a non-trivial 44 qubit quantum circuit in fewer than 3.5 hours.
Quantum Chemistry Calculation with FHI-aims code on AWS
This article was contributed by Dr. Fabio Baruffa, Sr. HPC and QC Solutions Architect at AWS, and Dr. Jesús Pérez Ríos, Group Leader at the Fritz Haber Institute, Max-Planck Society. Introduction Quantum chemistry – the study of the inherently quantum interactions between atoms forming part of molecules – is a cornerstone of modern chemistry. […]